Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgensteinwas an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one article, one book review and a children's dictionary. His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. Philosophical Investigations appeared as a book in 1953, and has since come to be...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 April 1889
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes about
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense....
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.